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holiness of the Church and its members will help to convince the world to 

listen to the Church. This time of peace and holiness will occur beginning 

about A.D. 2040, following God's punishment at the end of the Forty Years. 

It will be a great foreshadowing of the Millennium of peace and holiness 

which will follow the destruction of Antichrist and his followers (in the 25th 

century). During those holy years called  the Millennium, the whole world 

shall finally be Christian; peace and holiness shall reign over all the earth for 

more than a thousand years. 

21.   This peace among men will not be long; 25 years of abundant harvests 

will make them forget that the sins of men are the cause of all the pains 

which come upon the earth.  

    These words refer only to the time of peace and holiness at the end of the 

Forty Years. When the great monarch's kingdom is divided into four parts, 

other leaders will take his place who do not have his holiness and his love 

for God and the Church (Dan 11:4). This event will be one sign of the 

beginning of the return the world towards sin. The lack of holiness in the 

leaders is a reflection of the lack of holiness in the people. The monarch's 

kingdom will be divided, probably before the end of the 25 years. After some 

years of peace, charity, and holiness, the world will begin to slip back into 

the old sinful ways. When the 25 years have ended, peace will gradually 

begin to slip away as sin gradually begins to increase. Among worldly 

persons, the peace of this time will be relatively short lived, but among the 

servants of God it will last longer. Those who seek God will find true peace 

in their hearts. 

22.   A forerunner of the antichrist with his troops from several nations will 

fight against the true Christ, the only Savior of the world; he will spill much 

blood, and will want to annihilate the worship of God in order to make 

himself be looked upon as a God.  

    This will not occur immediately after the 25 years of prosperity. But as the 

world becomes more and more sinful, leaders will arise here and there, from 

time to time, who are more and more evil. Eventually, this forerunner or 

precursor of Antichrist will gain power and attack Christians, the Church, 

and the Christian faith. This persecution of the Church occurs long after the 

time of prosperity which follows the Forty Years, and sometime before the 

reign of the ten kings and Antichrist. 

    An evil leader cannot rise to power in a  holy world nor amid a holy 

nation. The people that worships God with a sincere heart will be blessed 

with good leaders. People that ignore God's will in order to chase their own